Preston Raspberry Jam

The Raspberry Pi is steadily making it’s way to thousands of eager early adopters, and along it’s way, there is a new growing trend.

Raspberry Jams are user groups for those interested in Raspberry Pi and it’s possible uses.

People from around Lancashire journeyed to attend this special event, hosted by the creator of the concept Alan O’Donohoe (@teknoteacher).

The idea is simple, provide a place where Pi enthusiasts can get together, show off their projects, and discuss computing related topics.

There were many speakers at this event, Simon Monk (of the Evil Genius book series) talked about using the Pi with an Arduino.

Cefn Hoile spoke about Shrimping (taking old IT equipment and reusing it in open hardware hacking)

Jason from frambozenbier, spoke about running Quake 3 on the Pi, and using it as a thin client to a Windows server.

The night was fantastic, I managed to record all of the talks, and I will be releasing the audio ASAP., so watch this space.

You can find my photos on my Flickr page